YingBlanc wrote:Understood Thomas, that's fine then, not 100% sure I would use it all the time. Haven't really touched the SC4 file for a while so I'll forget the idea. But just to say I don't wanna be a small country

Well, all Thomas is saying is that it's not a good idea for Histalpol (or any nation) to have overseas territories in the Middle East. I mean, you can still have Caribbean territories or Indian Ocean territories.

That's not what I'm saying at all.

Cattala is a small country and it achieves a lot. There are many small states that have achieved a lot more in this union than even the largest of superpowers. It's the way you go about it that matters. I've never contemplated expanding Cattala because there's so much I can do with what I've got. The amount of depth you can go into with a small state is enormous - but with big countries you'll never even scratch the surface.

Cattala is a small country and it achieves a lot. There are many small states that have achieved a lot more in this union than even the largest of superpowers. It's the way you go about it that matters. I've never contemplated expanding Cattala because there's so much I can do with what I've got. The amount of depth you can go into with a small state is enormous - but with big countries you'll never even scratch the surface.

Well, geographically speaking, Sainte-Croix is a very small country (the Croisian Realm in its entirety has less land than Cattala). However, it has been a massive empire in the past due to its need for trade and competition with other Euro-powers, and today it is militarily strong. I mean, I guess being geographically small isn't really bad, but you kinda wanna have some sort of edge over other nations. While I understand what you mean, I can definitely see Ying's point in wanting to expand. Just saying.